OK, I got some blowback over picking a Bernie pic on my last diary, which had nothing to do with the diary. So here’s Socrates, because reason.
Reason seems to be a bit dead outside of an increasingly rarefied segment of our society. I speak of a recent encounter with about my best friend from high school. She an I were close, in the Platonic sense (oh snap, Socrates). She has a Master’s degree in teaching, summa cum, so no doubt emerged having been graced by the old gods of reason.
Recently we locked horns over the latest shooting at a women’s health clinic. And today she went so far as to throw down on women who hadn’t managed to not get pregnant in the first place, and went further by calling that operation murder. The only problem is that she told me a few years back when she got pregnant as a teen in the 1970s, and had an abortion. And I also related that I paid for such medical services for girlfriends in my time.
Our conversation was worse than that, from an intelligent point of view. I pointed out that the Planned Parenthood video was edited by virtue of the original being longer than the excerpt … this being a simple QED math question … and her retort that I was burying my head in the sand. Projection, much? And I even appealed to our mutual Christian upbringing (same church in our home town), about how Jesus taught love, not hate.
Now, how is it possible for for me to converse with, via facts and simple reason, with any Republican, if I can’t even talk to a gal-pal from way back? Has Conservative propaganda so brainwashed them that they forget math and even the advice of old friends? Is it so bad that they can’t even remember that they are guilty of the sins of which they accuse others?
How is this possible? I did a few bad, and good things when I was a kid and later, but as God is my witness, I actually do remember. But I also recall that Bonnie and me were cut from the same cloth, and we stood up for each other, and nearly got into a car crash with each other. How in the fuck do you lose a friend like that to a propaganda machine?
Better yet. Anyone got a clue as to how you can sway these poor souls away from the brink? Because neither facts nor reason are working for me. As to those Conservatives I do not know, but have engaged, I tried everything from shame, sarcasm and humor. So far, zip. I’m open to aerial spraying via the rumored vapor trails. ha ha. sigh.